Can You Match the Name to its Siblings?…

You shall know them by the company they keep.

That’s the idea behind the “sibling clouds” in our Namipedia. On each name page, we invite readers to submit the names of siblings they’ve encountered. (“Know a Sebastian? What are his siblings named?”) The top 25 sibling results are displayed, with the size of the type reflecting how many times each name was submitted. For popular name pages, the 25 displayed names may be distilled from many thousands of individual name submissions.

The resulting set gives you a unique perspective: names, as described by other names. Seeing names favored by the same families not only offers ideas for potential brothers and sisters, but paints a picture of a name’s cultural setting and stylistic impact.

See for yourself. I’ve gathered a variety of sibling clouds from Namipedia pages. Can you match the names to the sibling sets? (Answers below.)